I a i a it- -- JV fa fc 7 J V - V r - - itfff L H COMMODOEE SINKS en Amerioans and Six Cubans Were Either Killed or Drowned Hie Ship It Is Alleged Was Scuttled and tbe Pumps JDeranffed by a Traitor The Commodora Was Loaded With Anns and Ammnnltloa tor Cubans 4 fr St Augustine Ma Jan 4 The filibustering- steamer Commodore which s left Jacksonville Fla Friday even i ing was sunk off New Smyrna bar at S30 oclock Saturday morning- carrying its precious cargo of arms etc for the Cuban army to the bottom 20 fathoms deep The consignment consisted of 203000 cartridges 1000 pounds giant powder 40 bundles of rifles 2 electric batteries 300 machetes 14 cases of drugs 4 bun dles of clothes valued at 44465 Not -v an article was saved Jacksonville Fla Jan 4 All of the crew of the Commodore were not saved as reported Saturday night Twelve are in Jacksonville three alive and one dead at Daytona Four are reported to have arrived near Armond - but the report has not been confirmed and eight are at se...

ft- r ii us I Vi r v 41 i 1 r - nPKKr V -a 2 r D - - i 1 i1 n S I- IS M i C 1 - Lv - f v t rj - VV 4 a M WHILE WE SLEEP While we sleep Gods silence holds Earth and us within its folds Clasps us close and bids us rest afe and sweet upon its breast While twa ioon n ur an0V v4 oii 114C moves on i uent forcesone by one l2Sr chmber through the houra Keeping time to times own powers Rhythmic in its tock-tick-tock Speaks our faithful friend the clock Counts fho minulu 17 uluurei men way mm Till the dawning of the day V Robert Barra m V Copyright i8q5 by Robert Barr his breath as he saw his own ns While we sleep the iron horse Girdles earth with winged force While it carries us afar Safe within its palace car While we sleep stars in the sky their vigils up on high Jeweled lights resplendent shine Crowning darkness as divine Watching earth we love to feel -Guarding us with ceaseless zeal Tempests come and tempests go While we sleep nor do we know Of their battles or the cause Or the potencie...

It it i TTe fa H i i m h H V t t f i r 1 - r v M TRt BQURBUN HEWS LSlxteenth YearEstablished 1881 Published every Tuesday and Friday by WALTER QHAMP BBUfJE MILLER We are authorized Samuel T James as a Jailer subject to the Editors and Owner IRT all Checks Money Order etc payable to the onler of Champ Miller ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR JUDGE We are authorized to announce Wm MPuRNELLas a candidate for Judge Of Bourbon County subject to the action of the Democratic party N FOR CIRCUIT CLERK We are authorized to announce Chas E Butler as a candidate for Circuit Clerk subject to the action of the Demo cratic party ji FOR SHERIFF We are authorized to announce George W Bowen as a candidate for Sheriff subject to the action of Democratic party If elected Bowens deputies will be W Mitchell and J ames Burke FOR JAILER the Mr W to announce candidate for action of the Democratic party We are authorized to announce W C Oones as a candidate for re election as Jailer subject to the action of the Democratic ...

I J V v3 Ul v Jl 1 V SHI 54 1 tn t V H Hl VS r A L off v - E IlllUBBOWEfflS Sixteenth Year JEstabllhed 18811 littered at the Post office at Paris Kv nR soud class mall matter TELEPHONE NO 124 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Payable in A Avarice leyear Attention is n firm name ARCl 2 00 Six mouths S100 mws costs you cant even get a re port FROM A GUN FREE OF CHAKGE Make all Checks Move Orders Etc lay able to the order of Champ Miilkr Two of W F Talbotts Lilwith diphtheria t directed to the establishment of P children are The Sheriffs sale of Jas O Grays IhorBes has been indefinitely postponed Judge Webbs civil court begins this morning There are fifty two caBes on the docket J W Bacon and W A Parker Jr leave to morrow for Lawrence county Alabama on a hunting trip Barton Jameson of thiB county has secured a position as traveling salesman for a Cincinnati coffee and tea house Miss Lelia Johnson has accepted a position as stenographer for Hon E M Dickson attorney for the L N railroad Rev Frank Hall...

S M v Hi ifr o - 6 frf THE BOURBON- NEWS Sixteenth Year Established 1881 Published Every Tuesday and Friday by WALTER CHAMP ru n BROCE 3I2DLER f Edlors andOwners SAVED BY A PHANTOM BY LAURA B MARSH iF EISUEELY the two strolled along- on the outskirts of that little New Mexican village she half -hid den under a drooping leghorn sunshade he in a wealth of outing flannel his blouse coat care lessly unbuttoned swinging- her big- bouquet of purple jimpsous back and forth as he talked everything- else but sermons and the Methodism at that moment being- ex pounded in the village church Too warm for that doctrine this morning- he said WelL just try a Utile theology of our own up there under the devils pulpit V pointing- to a huge pile of rocks near town thrown together like a big black platform lie -turned his merry dark eyes upon the sunshade as he quoted 4 Wherever God erects a houscof prayer The devil always builds a chapel there Were in a dangerous way then - she replied in grave alarm ...

i r m y If w ii a 8 OF VALUABLE Bii Q c - - - I e MIS SUM 11 UUiJJUl BOURBON CIRCUIT COURT Sallie J Barnett Plaintiff vs Tonii I Moore c Defendants - And The Northwestern -Mutual Iife Insurance Company Plaintiffs vs John I Moore e Defenants And Sallie S Withers c Plaintiffs vs John I Moore e Defendants - By virtue of a judgment ofisale made andtentered in the above styled causes on the 12th day of December 1896 I will sell at public outcry at what is known as the Home Farm of Johu I Moore in Bourbon county Kentucky to the highest and best bidder on s Saturday January 9th97 About the hour of 12 oclock mM the following described tracts of laud to wit Beginning at a stone in the middle of the Millersburg and Ruddells Mills turnpike in front of the residence of H C Current thence along the mid dle of said pike South seventy three 73 degrees West fifty two 52 poles South seventy two and three quarters 72 West one hundred and twenty nine and twenty six one hundredth 129 26 100 poles to a ...

cr J i v - n f r rv t t v IV - 1 W 3M r SLT C tWx 1 t iv ir U- F r IV 1- - tiv j ar UjTa 5- r J THE DAUNTLESS Buccessfully Lands Her Precious Cargo on Cuban Soil the Vessel Took the Mn and Arms Left on -No Name Key by the Thre friends Cargo Consisted of Arms Ammunition Dynamite Etc New York Jan 6 The Cuban pa per El Pprvenir published in this city received luesday this dispatch from Key West signed by Emilio Nanez referring- to the Dauntless expedition Expedition was happily disem barked at Sagua in combination with Gomez By this it is understood that the Dauntless successfully landed her cargo and that the supplies were re ceived by Gomez The Dauntless took the 51 men and the arms and ammuni tion which the Three Friends left on No Name Key near Key West after failing to land them in Cuba The cargo is said to have contained 1184 rifles 500000 cartridges -600 machetes 1000 pounds of dynamite medicines supplies etc Sagua where the expedition was landed is an important town of Santa Cl...

it if M t tfsjj IJ r -I U ui i ir t lRv r ri V- 1 ITS ra if JOURNEY TO Ik THE jh -I V U SEA- Xn a wild and rugged fvoods dell On the scraggy mountain side TTrom a tiny rocky cavern Swift a little rill doth glide -And it gurgles and it murmurs As it trickles down the hill And it bubbles oer with laughter Such a merryx little rill Wakes the echoes with its laughter Such a happy little rill As it glides along its journey Soon it finds a valley sweet And another wandering rivlet On its way doth chance to meet -So together on they travel As a brook they skip along Filling all the air with music Of their dancing rippling song Fill the air with pleasant murmur Of their breezy liquid song Farther down the pleasant valley Other running streams they find And in happy tune together Thro the fields they gayly wind Flower and fern and grass and willow Bend the running waters oer And the vine with -ripened berry Hangs its head upon the shore Laden with the luscious berry Bows its head upon the sh...

i u rcM V Jtl 1 i V V r i t - t u - - V 1 4 - - 9 8 v Vv 3 7 - tm Iff III - 1 Ik r I I- I r I r H s THE IIIIIIMEH I Sixteenth Year Established ISHls Pttblinhed every Tuesday and Friday by WALTER CHAMP BBUOJS JCILLER Editors and Oumer I Make all Chccfa Money Orderx etc payable lo the order of Champ Miixbr ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR JUDGE We are anthorized to announce Wji M Purnell as -a candidate for Judge of Bourbon County subject to the action of the Democratic party FOR CIRCUIT CLERK We are authorized to announce Chas E Butler as a candidate for Circuit Clerk subject to the action of the Demo cratic party We are authorized to announce T Hart Talbot as a candidate for Circuit Clerk subject to the action of the Democratic party FOR SBERIFF We are authorized to announce George W Bowen as a candidate for Sheriff subject to the action of Democratic party If elected Bowens deputies will be W Mitchell and J ames Burke FOR JAILER We are authorized Samuel T James as a Jailer subject to the Democrat...

Kf k i G N1 fi M u h v i I - - - - - THE BOURBON NEWS Sixteenth Year Established 18811 o J111 dt the Post office at Paris Ky as - second class mail matter TELEPHONE NO 124 SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Payable in A fvan ce One year S2 00 Sixmouths 8100 news costs you cant jeven get a re port FKOM A QUN FKEE OF CHAHOS Ufalce all Checks Monti fh ffcr rv payable to the qrder oChaxp Miiib Duncan Bell left Tuesday ington to engage in the drug Aov Lex busineas JkliS3 Hettie Whaley has accepted a position as governess in J B Stuarts family ao To day is the eighty second an niversary of the battle of New Orleans ihich occurred January 8th 115 Matthew Turney of this city joined the- Christian Church in George town Sunday night and was immersed Wednesday iiight J T Rawn of this city is ruDniDg the L N morning train from Rich mond to MayBville for a few days while Conductor Sam Baily is taking a vaca tion Attention is directed to the an nouncement on fourth page of Mr T Hart Talbots candidacy for Circui...

it r u v 5 - gaFy 1 6o kt 5a ss irw kww ntp v wsBiw 3- - - - r t I r rviij t yv - - WK BOURBON NEWS rvglJixteeRtji Year Established 18811 Published Every Tuesday and Friday by BRUCE MILLER t Ediors andOwnars RELIANCE -Though the mountainsin the distance wear a mistj shroud of blue rrnd he f rost beins ta tingle in the air J hough the trees have doffed their splen ic dors and the somber leaden hue Of the sky has touched the landscape bleak andbare We know the world is spinning As its done since the beginning - We may not seek to guide its course through spacer But were sure twill bring the roses And the shine that June discloses Ever welcome in their old accustomed place Though the darkness of a sorrow seems to bend across your way Though the songs of youth have melted to a sigh Though the prospect of the morrow bears - a shadow from to day And the hours grow stern and sterner as they fly x We know the world is spinning -- As its done since the beginning And while we vainly strive it...

u n J fi w h kf ij f V - l X - A - J - - 3V S 41 - - - x i 4 V r - we MOTES SALE i o OF VALUABLE iiftlii i BOURBON CIRCXJXT COURT SallieB Barnett Plaintiff vs Tolin I Moore c Defendants And The Northwestern Mutual Xife Insurance Company Plaintifife vs John I Moore c Befenants And SalHe S Withers c7 Plaintiffs vs John I Moore c Defendants By virtue of a judgment of saleinade and entered in the above styled causes on the 1 2th day of December 1896 I will sell at public outcry at what is known as the Home Farm of John I Moore in Bourbon county Kentucky to the highest and best -bidder on Saturday January 9th9T About the hour of 12 ni -the following described tracts of laud to wit Beginning at a stone in the middle of the Millersburg and Ruddells Mills turnpike in front of the residence of H C Current thence along the mid dle of said pike South seventy three 73 degrees West fifty two 52 poles South seventy two and three quarters 72 West one hundred and twenty nine and twenty six one hund...

- j r I h X M ifls K S- T t P S a - A I- t J k tK - 5SS V riv r jf v 1 7 V V 1 V 3 - - C V V -1 fc V - Q WX W t Wf X - 8 SHE SPOKE AT LAST hce upon a time thaw lived a king o had an immense garden Its pathf Wtto strewn with gayly colored sand i the niches of its yew tree hedge stood White marble statues and strange flowers of burning colors surrounded the grass Wit But in the middle of tho garden was oad in the centor of which was a group ofc fish tailed sea gods who sitting upon scouting dolphins were biwlag their akell trumpets All the world admired this garde 3crewas only one person whom it did Bt please This was the king younaf and st beautiful daughter Those shameless hen gods f risrhtened bar she al- avoided the rden therefore the king who loved hi daughter above all the world sont for a Jjang gardener who had travalad thjrougk Xiny lands and had seen many splendid tWngs and commanded him to make a netw garden in place of the old ona He wished to make a present of it to the pr...

J S li - i r - 5U iar f s A - 15 ifi if IH - in w3 S T VI - J I- f iV 4ffCX FIVE PEBSONS Murdered by Simon Cooper Colored Near ou rtpter S C The Murderer Made His Escape But Thre Posses Are Scourmg the Country for the Wretch and if Captured Ho Will lie Summarily Dealt With Sumpter SG Jan 8 All Sumpter was aroused Thursday over a report that bimon Cooper had killed old Mr Ben Wilson his son Wesley Mrs Wes ley Wilson and two Negroes a man and a girl Sheriff Pierson as soon as possible organized a posse and - chartering- a special train left for Lynchburg- The train was stopped at Maysville near which point the Negro had been seen and a part of the posse left for St Charles and the others took the public road coming towards Sumpter Thesje two parties in conjunction with posses from Maysville are scouring- every foot of the land between Maysville and Sumpter The facts in regard to the killing of five persons as received in Sumpter are as follows Simon Coo per went to Lynchburg Wednesday...

ll1 v t S Lt m I f - - V F n er A Woman Robert Barft 4 GmmRsim 3S3sS2k THE MOON TRAIL The xnoon trail shineth across the sea And etretcheth o to a farqountree tn the realms c the old romantic moon Where is morning and midnight noon Then lovers away on the bright moon trail Each happy two with a tiny sail In a silver waste with stars above And nothing to do but love and love The great kind moon like a sphere of light Swings down to the rim of the sea each night Finding ever some bark with a happy - crew Bringing all the world though it brings but two Then lovers away on the bright moon traiT Soft breezes are sighing to fill your sail There are stars beneath -and stars above And nothing to do but love and love v The moon trail lighteth the sea of life For lover and maiden lover and wife And its joy to sail down its shimmery way Just two together forever and aye Then lovers away on the bright moon trail Each happy twain with a tiny sail For theres naught so sweet in Heaven above Or the...